He works tirelessly, eats badly, and drinks his nights away.īut now, with winter tightening and his activities being monitored by a tough-minded district attorney, Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a battle against time and against mounting racial hatred.
Kurt doesn't face up to the problems in his life, which eventually leads him into crisis situations. He struggles with his personal problems while he investigates murders and hate crimes occurring in his area.
Wallander's life is a shambles: his wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, and even his ageing father barely tolerates him. Kurt Wallander is a police detective in a rural area of Sweden. Wallander, Series II: Faceless Killers, The Man Who Smiled, The Fifth Woman. In this first installment, Wallander tries to solve a murder at a remote Swedish farmhouse, going on nothing but a foreign word uttered by a dying woman. When this is leaked to the press, it unleashes a tide of racism. Faceless takes us to the frontline of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong to meet four such young people. The Swedish Mankell, a master of the police procedural, is best known for his 11-book series following the rugged, obsessive Ystad police inspector Kurt Wallander. The woman supplied Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign.
When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath.Īn old man has been beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. One frozen January morning, Inspector Kurt Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call-out. Faceless Killers : Bk 1 Kurt Wallander Series
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